Hand puppet constructed out of original designs and temporary tattoo paper

ABSTRACT

This is made up of original designs printed on temporary tattoo paper. They are applied to the hand to create hand puppets. The objective is fun for all ages. Different faces are created including people, pets, pirates, anime, skeletons, punk, zoo animals, Goth, vampires, etc. This invention can also include accessories (3-D) such as stick-on mustaches, hair, clothes, etc. This idea also includes interactive books with matching hand puppets.

This application is based on provisional application No. 61/079,556filed Jul. 10, 2008

The present invention relates to a hand puppet constructed out oforiginal designs and temporary tattoo paper.

The faces are designed and printed on temporary tattoo paper. The designis cut out with scissors in two parts. The top part of the face isplaced on the index finger. The bottom part of the face is aligned withthe top section on the index finger and placed on the thumb. The indexfinger and other fingers are bent in toward the palm of the hand to makea first. The thumb is placed on the bent lower section of the indexfinger and moved up and down to make the puppet design come alive.

The design works by creating a puppet on your hand. It can be used byjust one person or interactively between groups, such as for story time,plays, or books to learn things such as feelings. Say a mad face puppet,sad face puppet, glad face puppet or bad face puppet. Different puppetscan be placed on the hands of different children for instance to act outthe reading of a book. They can be used to express individuality, etc.

The intent of this temporary tattoo face design idea to create puppetson the belly surrounding the belly button as the mouth and also facesaround the nipples with the nipple as the nose, etc.

The faces can be created with temporary tattoo paper and originaldesigns and also any 3-D accessories. Also bible characters, bandcharacters, etc. can be used for interactive hand puppet plays.

This invention is that the hand puppet is created with designs printedon temporary tattoo paper that are applied on the hand in a mannermaking it possible to have a temporary tattoo hand puppet. By placingthe temporary tattoo design—top portion at base of index finger at theside of the hand above the thumb, and the bottom portion on the thumb—onthe hand, the thumb is moved up and down while the hand is in the firstposition with the thumb on the outside of the index finger making thepuppet talking motion.

The puppet temporary tattoo design is many different charactersincluding people, zoo animals, birds, wild animals, pets, pirates, skullfaces, celebrities, animated faces, cartoon characters, politicalfigures, custom self caricature faces, etc., etc. Also there areaccessories to be applied to the temporary tattoo puppet or surroundingportion of the hand including hair pieces (such as mohawks andmustaches) earrings, clothes, and a multitude of other accessories to beapplied with glue such as spirit glue used in plays and movies ordouble-sided tape, etc. Also puppet bodies created out of felt and othermaterials that are attached to the hand to add to the temporary tattoohand puppet. Also, sleeves for clothes that are fitted at the wrist andstyled such as formal wear, casual wear, suit and tie, etc. Also, thetemporary tattoo hand puppets are mascots of sports teams such asbarking bulldogs, buzzing yellow jackets, etc. to be used to support afavorite team. Also to be used as organization mascots, etc. Thesetemporary tattoo hand puppets can be used as movie characters, politicalcharacters, book characters, famous characters, interactive story timecharacters, for help possibly in role playing for counseling purposes.The uses and the accessories are many and vast. The temporary tattoohand puppets are fun for the whole family.

The temporary tattoo finger puppets and palm of hand stage setting/gameboard are applied to the fingers as characters and to the palm of thehand in a way that is to create a puppet show and stage, game or story.The temporary tattoo finger puppets and palm stage setting can also beused with story time or story telling by moving the finer characters ofthe hand as needed or “on cue”.

The temporary tattoo finger puppet and stage setting designs are variedand vast with many possibilities, such as baseball players on thefingers and baseball field on the palm of the hand so the fingers withtemporary tattoo characters applied can be moved to bases first, second,third, home etc. as a story or game, or zoo animal temporary tattoofinger puppets and zoo entrance and different animal habitats to be usedwith a story or playtime or as a game such as where does the lion live?,where does the monkey live?—where the temporary tattoo palm settingdesign has four habitats to choose from and the finger puppetcharacter—say the lion—is moved or bent down to the habitat section thatsupports that animal character to create a game or learning experience.Or the finger puppets can play a simple game of Tic-Tac-Toe on the palmof the hand game board by choosing the placement of the marks and themarks drawn on with a pen. The temporary tattoo finger puppet characterscan also be characters such as my family and my home or my car, etc.These temporary tattoo finger puppets also have accessories such ashair, mustaches, clothes, scarves, hats, etc. that are glued on, tiedon, applied, etc.

These temporary tattoo hand puppets and finger Puppets with palmsettings also can have their own pets, friends, belongings—such asplants etc.—added to either the outer edge of the fisted hand, beforethe wrist begins, or up the arm to create a story or on the palm of thehand temporary tattoo such as a puppy tattoo added to the setting.Family member temporary tattoo and palm of hand settings could also beused for counseling or role playing, etc.

DRAWING DESCRIPTION

FIG. 1: is the view of a temporary tattoo hand puppet applied on thehand

FIG. 2: is the view of the temporary tattoo hand puppet on the paperstrip

FIG. 3: is the view of the hand sporting the temporary tattoo fingerpuppets and palm stage setting/game board to serve as a puppet show orgame

NUMBER DESCRIPTION LIST

-   10: is the overall view of a hand supporting the temporary tattoo    hand puppet-   12: is the upper half of the puppet to be worn on the area at the    base of the index finger at the side of the hand-   14: is the lower half of the temporary tattoo puppet to be worn on    the thumb-   16: is the overall view of temporary tattoo puppet strip-   18: is overall view of the temporary tattoo finger puppets and palm    stage setting/game board to be used as a puppet show/game or to be    used interactively with books and story tine by moving the fingers    as needed or on cue-   20: is the temporary tattoo finger puppets applied on the fingers-   22: is the temporary tattoo stage setting/game board applied to the    center of the palm of the hand

1. The way this invention works is the temporary tattoo paper with myhand puppet design is applied on the index finger and thumb of the hand.With the index finger bent in toward the hand, and the thumb placed overthe bent tip of the index finger, the thumb is moved up and down to workthe face of the puppet like it is talking, yawning, etc.